Ecological factors related to the widespread distribution of sylvatic Rhodnius ecuadoriensis populations in southern Ecuador

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Grijalva, Mario J ^a,b   Suarez Davalos, Victoria ^b   Villacis, Anita G ^b   Ocaña Mayorga, Sofia ^b   Dangles, Olivier ^c  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^c France and University of Paris Sud   (France)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Ecuador; Rhodnius ecuadoriensis; sylvatic triatomines

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INFESTATION; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROHABITAT; NEST PREDATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; RHODNIUS; RHODNIUS ECUADORIENSIS; SCIURUS STRAMINEUS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SQUIRREL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHAGAS DISEASE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HOUSING; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MAMMALS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DENSITY; RHODNIUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AVES; MAMMALIA; RHODNIUS ECUADORIENSIS; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS STRAMINEUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84855724439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-17     Document Type: Article

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